Visualizing Blackness and the Creation of the African American Literary Tradition

ISBN: 9781316639276 出版年：2014 页码：296 Lena Hill Cambridge University Press

Introduction: the trope of the picture book Part I. Sights of Instruction: 1. Witnessing moral authority in pre-abolition literature 2. Picturing education and labor in Washington and Du Bois 3. Gazing upon plastic art in the Harlem Renaissance Part II. Lessons from the Museum: 4. Zora Neale Hurston: seeing by the rules of the Natural History Museum 5. Melvin Tolson: gaining modernist perspective in the art gallery 6. Ralph Ellison: engaging racial perception beyond museum walls Coda: redefining the look of American character.